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Available
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Publication
Plume (1999), Paperback, 386 pages
Description
"Whether probing the psyche of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evaluating the championship mettle of Mike Tyson, or illuminating the work of Herman Melville, the art of Rene Magritte and Edward Hopper, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Joyce Garol Oates displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge and interests. In this collection of nearly fifty essays, articles, and reviews, one of our country's leading literary figures and social critics explores myriad facets of the American experience, in fiction and beyond, from Fitzgerald to Plath. Melville to Updike, Flannery O'Connor to Timothy McVeigh."--Jacket.
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Original publication date
1999
Physical description
386 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
0452280532 / 9780452280533
Local notes
READIN, bedroom table
i: where is an author?
ii: 'i had no other thrill or happiness': reviews, review-essays, journalism
f. scott fitzgerald, raymond chandler, rene magritte, jack herouac, sylvia plath, paul bowles, jean stafford, anne sexton
saul bellow, john updike, henry louis gates jr., john edgar widman, brian moore, p.d. james, dorothy l. sayers, grace paley, elizabeth hardwick
iii: 'the madness of art': essays and introductions:
herman melville, emily dickinson, henry james, christina rossetti, harold frederic, joseph conrad, arthur miller, flannery o'cnnor, edward hopper, charles sheeler
iv.: where i've been, and where i'm going: prefaces, afterwords
i: where is an author?
ii: 'i had no other thrill or happiness': reviews, review-essays, journalism
f. scott fitzgerald, raymond chandler, rene magritte, jack herouac, sylvia plath, paul bowles, jean stafford, anne sexton
saul bellow, john updike, henry louis gates jr., john edgar widman, brian moore, p.d. james, dorothy l. sayers, grace paley, elizabeth hardwick
iii: 'the madness of art': essays and introductions:
herman melville, emily dickinson, henry james, christina rossetti, harold frederic, joseph conrad, arthur miller, flannery o'cnnor, edward hopper, charles sheeler
iv.: where i've been, and where i'm going: prefaces, afterwords